Apparatus for filtering and cooling water



(No Model.)

R. H. FRANKLIN.

APPARATUS FOR FILTERING AND 000mm WATER. No. 249,608. Patented Nov. 15,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT H. FRANKLIN, OF

APPARATUS FOR FILTERING GIIADALAJARA, MEXIoo.

AND COOLING WATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,608, dated November 15, 1881.

' Application filed August 2,1861. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be known that I, ROBERT H. FRANKLIN, of Guadalajara, Mexico, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Filtering and Cooling Water, of which" the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to furnish a portable and effective apparatus for family and hotel use by which a supply of filtered and cool water can be kept onhand for useas required.

The invention consists, first, in a water-re ceptacle constructed of filtering material; and,-' second, in the combination therewith of a vessel of porous material, in which the water is cooled by evaporation from the outer surface, all as hereinafter. described and claimed.

In the. accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a stand on which the filtering-vessels are sustained. This stand may be of any suit" able form and construction. As shown, it consists of four posts,c, and upper and lower supports for the vessels.

B is the filtering vessel or receptacle,having sides a and bottom cl formed by slabs of filtering-stone, or other material of a porous natnre, suitable for filtering purposes. In shape the "essel B is preferably square, as shown, with tapering sides, and the size will be according to amount of water required. The whole vessel being of the filtering material, an

, extensive filtering-surfaceis obtained by avessel of comparatively small size. The vessel B is supported at the upper part of stand A by the strips 1) b.

G is the cooler, consisting of a hollow vessel of any suitable form, supported by the shelf e below the filter B, so as to receive the water therefrom. The vessel 0 is earthenware baked by a low heat-,so that it retains its porous character and will absorb the water. The evaporation from the outer surface of such vessel hastheeftect to keep the water therein cool.

In operation the water to be filtered is supplied to vessel B, and passing through the bottom and sides of the same collectson the under side of the bottom, from wheuce it drops into the vessel 0 and accumulates. A supply of filtered and cooled water is thus kept in vessel O. The vessel 0 is provided with afaucet, g, for convenience of drawing the Water.

The vessels B O can be readily removed from the stand for cleaning.

The apparatus is portable and adapted for family andhotel use. 7

I am aware that it is not broadly new to make a reservoirfor holding water of earthen- .ware, and I therefore do'not claim such; but

i What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a tilteringapparatus, the combination, with the side bars, I), and the shaft 0, of the filteringvessel B, constructed of slabs of filtering material and supported by the said bars, and the cooler 0, made of porous material and supported upon the said shelf under the filteringvessel, substantially as shown and described ROBERT E. FRANKLIN.

Witnesses GEo. D. WALKER, f G. SEDeWIoK. 

